Our ebay development S2D cluster

During this summer i decided i wanted to test out Storage Spaces Direct. TP5 was out and i was quite eager to test it out. Now it’s been upgraded to RTM with cluster rolling upgrade. Rember to run Update-ClusterFunctionalLevel after.

So i look arround on ebay for some servers and other items i needed to buy. I ended up with the list under all in 4x

HP DL380 G6 16 bay 128GB mem, 2x4core Intel CPU HP P420

HP H220

MellanoX ConnectX3 MCX312A-XCBT

Intel 750 NVME PCIe

2x Kingston SSDNow V310 for caching(Replacing with Samsung SM863)

6x WD Red NAS 1tb 2.5″

Dell Force Ten S4810P (Already had)

The price for all this without the switches and cables was about 90 000 nok, about 10 000 USD.

I cabled the HP H220 to controll the 2nd 8 bay HDD cage so give the HBA mode for the SSD and HDD. And 2 HP drives for OS in raid 0